The boom in e-commerce requires logistics providers to manage more destinations, more carriers and more demands amid complex global trade in addition to other challenges:
- Pressure to reduce shipping costs while meeting customer demands for delivery timeframes and visibility
- Increasing complexity of global trade regulations
- Managing high volumes of inbound and outbound shipments
- Complex shipping requirements across carriers, modes of transport and borders
- Adhering to customer requirements for shipping rules, routing and service levels across multiple geographies
- Customer demands for value-added services
QAD has been a trusted, decades-long solution partner to distribution enterprises, managing their global planning and delivery of diverse product offerings:
- A single platform for integrated trade compliance and global shipping that supports local carriers, languages and currencies
- Reduced costs for optimal mode and service level through standardized enterprise-wide shipping rules
- Real-time operational insights and exception alerts for at-risk deliveries
- Automated carrier and service level selection using routing guides and business rules
- Foreign-Trade Zone value-added service to reduce duties and improve cash flow
